Flemington council reviewing short list of street names for Cut Glass condo development

FLEMINGTON — The townhouse project on the old Flemington Cut Glass property will need a new street and that new street will need a name — and Borough Council will have veto power over it.

In November, Councilman Phil Greiner had asked for street-name suggestions and at the Feb. 10 council meeting, he circulated to the mayor and council the list of names he had accumulated. Saying that he “did a little weeding,” he asked his colleagues to look at the list and “if you see any names on here that you know you would not like or you would flat-out oppose, please let me know.”

Once the list is further winnowed, he will give it to the project’s architect. “They’ll probably have a couple of suggestions,” Greiner said, and the final name would have to pass muster with the Postal Service and a few other authorities.

Noelle O’Donnell, who ran for council last year, asked, “What about the schools? Can the students participate in that somehow?” She said it would be good to give them some “buy-in” to the community.

Greiner said that’s a good idea, but “I had announced it a couple months ago, and I already have the names in now. To be honest with you, I wasn’t planning to start it over again at this point.”

Councilman John Gorman recalled that schoolchildren had been involved in the naming of Tuccamirgan Park.

The 59-condo development has preliminary municipal approval. The developer, Dallas/Bellin, has purchased the land, but has not yet obtained final site-plan approval.